The Hollow Knight wiki community is another in a long line of wiki communities choosing to leave Fandom behind. But why is that? What is it about Fandom that...
  • Vipsu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    1 year ago

    All too common within attention economy for people to go for the more popular choice.
    Search engine algorithms tend to make things even worse.

    But there are games out there that might not even have wikis if Fandom didn’t make the barrier of entry so low.

    • wildgingerEnglish
      74·
      1 year ago

      What games are so small as to not be capable of generating a non fandom wiki, but are large enough that the wiki is not completely empty and factually incorrect?

          • Vipsu@lemmy.worldEnglish
            32·
            1 year ago

            The problem is that the content is already in wiki fandom and there are no contributors invested/interested enough to migrate all the information to alternative wiki. These fandom wikis have no teams just random individuals making contributions of various sizes.

            If I do ever get invested enough to a game to actually create a wiki I’ll definately use something else than fandom.

            • wildgingerEnglish
              53·
              1 year ago

              … Didnt you just say you made those 2 examples? Or did I misread

              • Vipsu@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                Quoting what I said in earlier reply:

                Neither of these where completely empty when I found them. Been updating them and filling some gaps in the wiki for the fun of it.

                I have not created any wikis myself I’ve just contributed to few that I’ve found which unfortunately have been hosted on fandom.

                • wildgingerEnglish
                  21·
                  1 year ago

                  Ah, I did misread.

                  Pretty sure wiki.gg has a wiki port request, so the fandom versions can be moved